IL-3 Dem Primary: Election Day!

[Atlas Force]

Why it's so telling who conservatives are supporting in this primary, in one tweet:

https://twitter.com/OJ4Progress/status/967153027076550657

[Jeppe]

The DCCC has declined to endorse Lipinski for re-election over Marie Newman. They’re feeding him to the wolves.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/25/lipinski-democrats-abortion-chicago-illinois-423431?lo=ap_a1

[VPH]

Lipinski just got two first responder union endorsements, which is not shocking but definitely helps him among his base in the outlying parts of Chicago.

[MAINEiac4434]

https://twitter.com/OJ4Progress/status/967153027076550657

[Classic Conservative]

https://twitter.com/OJ4Progress/status/967153027076550657

That would be my yard. If I was voting in the GOP primary, then I'd write in Lipinski for Congress.

[Atlas Force]

This is just as important a video today as it was a decade ago:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=N-rJIEdP9Ho

[Green Line]

I can't wait for the machine to crush this progressive fantasy.  We don't need privileged North Side Liberals telling us how to vote.

[MAINEiac4434]

I can't wait for the machine to crush this progressive fantasy.  We don't need privileged North Side Liberals telling us how to vote.

Nothing more privileged than having daddy gift you a seat in Congress.

[Badger]

I can't wait for the machine to crush this progressive fantasy.  We don't need privileged North Side Liberals telling us how to vote.

Nothing more privileged than having daddy gift you a seat in Congress.

DAY-yam!

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Who cares if Daddy gave him this seat? I don't.

[Rhenna]

As much as I dislike Lipinski, he surely could've won the seat on his own without being given it.

[Jeppe]

As much as I dislike Lipinski, he surely could've won the seat on his own without being given it.

He was a professor from Tennessee, I doubt it.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

As much as I dislike Lipinski, he surely could've won the seat on his own without being given it.

Definitely. Much unlike Bernie's spoiled child.

[Illiniwek]

Who cares if Daddy gave him this seat? I don't.

[Blair]

If his dad is allow to fix, and cheat to get him his seat in Congress, then progressives have every right to throw the absolute kitchen sink to kick him out of congress. There's a lot of chat on this thread about people from outside the district but look at this gem....

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So not only did his Dad drop out after the primary, but he was then the one who helped make the decision to appoint his son, who hadn't lived in state since the 90s

[MAINEiac4434]

Who cares if Daddy gave him this seat? I don't.

He's a carpetbagger from Tennessee, that's why.

[Illiniwek]

Whether you like him or not, guy's 13-year track record in Congress should outweigh how he got the seat 20 to 1 at least.

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This is also misleading. Throughout the 90s he worked on the staff for 3 Illinois congressmen and for the Cook County State's Attorney. Yes the years immediately preceding his first election he was in Tennessee, but he spent the bulk of the 1990s serving the people of Illinois while (probably) living primarily in Washington (Like, you know, every congressperson in modern history?).

He's a carpetbagger from Tennessee, that's why.

He lived in Tennessee for 3 years. Come on...

I'm just saying, his voting record and ideological fit for the district should matter way more in 2018 than some backroom politics that occurred before an election in 2004.

[Blair]

Whether you like him or not, guy's 13-year track record in Congress should outweigh how he got the seat 20 to 1 at least.

But his record in Congress is awful?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Whether you like him or not, guy's 13-year track record in Congress should outweigh how he got the seat 20 to 1 at least.

But his record in Congress is awful?

His record in Congress involves bringing a train station to his district just this past year, along with leadership on transportation issues (his district includes some rail yards too, atop all of that). How is that awful?

[Blair]

Whether you like him or not, guy's 13-year track record in Congress should outweigh how he got the seat 20 to 1 at least.

But his record in Congress is awful?

His record in Congress involves bringing a train station to his district just this past year, along with leadership on transportation issues (his district includes some rail yards too, atop all of that). How is that awful?

Because funnily enough, as a gay person I'd rather have a congressman who supports LGBT rights than someone who brings in a train station. The History of Congress is littered with awful bigots who brought home the bacon with one hand, whilst slapping minority groups with the others.

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[Donerail]

His record in Congress involves bringing a train station to his district just this past year, along with leadership on transportation issues (his district includes some rail yards too, atop all of that). How is that awful?

"On the one hand, he's an amoral monster who supports all the horrid policies advanced by the Republicans. On the other, he managed to secure part of the money to refurbish the second-largest Metra station in La Grange."

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

His record in Congress involves bringing a train station to his district just this past year, along with leadership on transportation issues (his district includes some rail yards too, atop all of that). How is that awful?

"On the one hand, he's an amoral monster who supports all the horrid policies advanced by the Republicans. On the other, he managed to secure part of the money to refurbish the second-largest Metra station in La Grange."

You have a severe case of Lipinski Derangement Syndrome. Why else would you be spreading this fake news?

[Blair]

His record in Congress involves bringing a train station to his district just this past year, along with leadership on transportation issues (his district includes some rail yards too, atop all of that). How is that awful?

"On the one hand, he's an amoral monster who supports all the horrid policies advanced by the Republicans. On the other, he managed to secure part of the money to refurbish the second-largest Metra station in La Grange."

You have a severe case of Lipinski Derangement Syndrome. Why else would you be spreading this fake news?

SJoyce is being too generous here; from a quick count there's at least a handful of sitting Republican house members who are more progressive on LGBT rights than Lipinski.

Heck Mark Kirk has a more liberal record than him on gay rights; if you're a Democrat, and the former Republican senator from your own state is more LGBT friendly you should expect a primary challenge.

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[President Punxsutawney Phil]

His record in Congress involves bringing a train station to his district just this past year, along with leadership on transportation issues (his district includes some rail yards too, atop all of that). How is that awful?

"On the one hand, he's an amoral monster who supports all the horrid policies advanced by the Republicans. On the other, he managed to secure part of the money to refurbish the second-largest Metra station in La Grange."

You have a severe case of Lipinski Derangement Syndrome. Why else would you be spreading this fake news?

SJoyce is being too generous here; from a quick count there's at least a handful of sitting Republican house members who are more progressive on LGBT rights than Lipinski.

Heck Mark Kirk has a more liberal record than him on gay rights; if you're a Democrat, and the former Republican senator from your own state is more LGBT friendly you should expect a primary challenge.

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It is ludicrous primarying him solely on the basis of this issue.
There are plenty of terrible GOP policies out there. The wording 'all the horrid policies advanced by the Republicans' is not just clumsy phrasing, it's bordering outright lying.

[Jeppe]

Lipinski is a political dinosaur that never evolved on his social views since he first got elected 12 years ago. We can do much better in this district.